Speeches

Everyone involved in education knows that state schools are struggling to make adequate provision for children with special needs. Many of them lack the...

Alistair Lexden delivered the following speech in the House of Lords during a debate on the Labour Government’s irresponsible tax-raising first budget on 11...

Years ago the Labour Party favoured pushing Northern Ireland out of the UK and into a united Ireland. Things are very different today. Labour stand by Northern...

The Government are making a bad policy even worse by rushing to impose VAT on independent school fees on I January, just two and a half months away, in the...

The Government intend to slap VAT on school fees on 1 January next year. The policy is wrong; its introduction during the course of an academic year is...

As is customary, the Lords allocated several days to its debate on the Gracious Speech delivered by the King on 17 July. Alistair Lexden made his contribution...

On 23 May, Alistair Lexden had been due to open a debate in the Lords on independent schools. In that speech, he would have attacked Labour’s education tax, its...

It is now over a quarter of a century since the IRA’s evil campaign of terror ended. It left bereaved families and injured victims leading broken lives. Far too...

The number of children in the care of local authorities is rocketing - up from 64,500 in 2010 to nearly 84,000 today. But local authorities, strapped for cash...